Nature vs Nurture: Is Alcohol Use Disorder in Our Genes?
However the use of microarrays and advances in next-generation RNA-sequencing (RNA-Seq) 35 have conferred the ability to quantify mRNA transcripts in postmortem brain and analyze expression differences between alcoholics and controls within gene networks 36–39. Beyond addressing the nature versus nurture debate, this research has a broader aim. According to Polimanti and Zhou, geneticists hope […]